FQHC based Family Medicine residency in NYC committed to culturally competent, social justice oriented family medicine!
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An update regarding our program: an agreement has been reached for Sinai to continue our training with now 5 slots per year. We want to thank everyone who contributed to our efforts in advocating for our program to stay. We can continue to serve our patients
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The future of our residency is being threatened by the unilateral decision from Sinai to defund our training. Please support us to save our program and click on this link to sign our petition.
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Next up: PGY-1 Julia! A New York native, Julia spent the last 5 years in CA. Her interests in medicine include: abortion access, adolescent medicine, and gender affirming care.
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve got a new program director!
Hi, I'm Radeeb. I am excited to join the Institute. I plan to bring my dynamic, relationship-centered, and passionate self to the team.
Outside of healthcare, she can be found eating pizza on the couch, reading fiction, and painting her nails with the most sparkly polish she can find. She is also currently one of our 3 pregnant residents!
Today we’re starting our tweet series to meet our residents! Follow along every few days and get to know some of us and why we chose Sinai for our FM training :)
We are proud to teach our residents comprehensive healthcare including abortion training. Abortion is healthcare. Future FM residents who want this crucial training please apply. We need you!
Yesterday was our fall retreat, our residents got the whole day off to hit the AMNH, get lunch 🍹🌮, and hang out in Central Park. A few got their boosters under the whale! We love our family even when *some people* get competitive at HeadsUp 👀
Dr. Radeeb Akhtar has been working as faculty at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center by way of the Community Medicine Fellowship and Family Medicine Residency programs at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego CA.
Feeling so lucky to be in procedure clinic this morning with this absolute legend in family medicine! Congratulations Dr Prine on receiving the Thomas W Johnson award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine education!
First up is Andreas, PGY1 from Los Angeles, CA! Andreas’s interests in medicine include Hep C and HIV, drug use and harm reduction, incarceration, homelessness, and gender-affirming care!
more pics from the AAFP conference!! shout out to PGY-2 Dr. Chen and rising PD Dr. Akhtar for joining our Harlem and Mid-Hudson colleagues and representing our program in KC!
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Andreas chose Sinai because he wanted to train at a program focused on providing community-facing primary care in a big city, based out of an FQHC, with a basis in politics and a keen attention to race, class, and the sociopolitical realities of NYCs communities
I chose Sinai because of its commitment to anti-racism and it’s care for underserved and underinsured patients. I was also drawn to the diversity and energy of New York City.”
Sparkling “wine” and Mardi Gras beads on the floors today to celebrate the end of our attendings’ current rotation. We will miss you Dr Surick and Dr Ellis! See you soon!
Outside of medicine, Elaina loves to do all kinds of crafts, read, and try new and exciting tea flavors; her coresidents and faculty enjoy getting to see Edith cameos on zoom meetings and virtual didactics.
We were so lucky and honored to host Dr Crystal Beal of
@DocQueer
for our didactics today! They gave our residents an excellent lecture on how to achieve aesthetic goals for our gender diverse patients. Thank you so much Dr Beal!
Our PGY2s are starting Complementary and Integrative Health month! 4 weeks to slow down, reconnect, and learn about health modalities that aren't traditionally covered in med school. Today we are focusing on Chinese Medicine and acupuncture w our colleagues from PCHS 🙌
In her words, why Talia chose Sinai: I chose Sinai Downtown because I believe it’s the perfect place to develop the skills needed to work with the complex social issues our healthcare system has created. It also provides the same wide variety of patients the city is inhabited by.
We’re back at it again at booth 17 tonight from 7-9! Come hear what we’re about. Here’s PGY3 Mark giving a presentation on PrEP earlier today!
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Julia rotated at Sinai as a 3rd year and loved the culture and vibe of the residents, as well as the integration of abortion care and focus on LGBTQ populations and social justice curriculum. Reach out to her at
@JuliaNEM33
with any more questions!
Next in our Meet The Residents series is PGY1 Elaina! Originally from RI, Elaina attended med school in Boston and now joins us here in NYC where she adopted a cat named Edith. Elaina is interested in health equity, care for individuals with disabilities, and the LGBTQ community.
We have PGY1
@JuliaNEM33
and PGY3/Chief Resident Kavya hanging out in the chat at our
#FMEC2020
booth and our PD and APD in a Zoom room to answer any and all questions! Stop by!
It's 5th Wednesday Social Justice didactics again! This week our topics are: Healthcare for the incarcerated @ Rikers, reading + discussion of Angela Davis's "Are Prisons Obsolete?," viewing of "Betrayal at Attica," and reproductive health fellows on abortion care.
I also enjoying trying new local beers and restaurants. Within medicine, I am interested in providing care to stigmatized populations, specifically through addiction medicine and lgbtq healthcare.
...Finally, all of the residents and faculty are passionate about a wide range of areas of care and provide the opportunity to learn and improve upon these same areas.
We have teaching residents on inpatient medicine! 3rd year residents who hang out and help manage the list, teach, touch up notes, and generally make the world a better place
Curious to hear if other med students have teaching residents/attendings solely assigned to help learners on a team develop their presentations and knowledge base?
I've had teaching attendings on EM (
@alvarezzzy
!!) and peds, and it makes an incredible diff 😭🥺😍
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Today we are featuring PGY2 Chelsea!
@FMdocinthecity
Chelsea is originally from Buffalo, NY where she went to medical school.
It was important to her to train at a program that values social justice and provides full-spectrum care to medically underserved communities.
Having 6 (yep, 6!) dogs takes up most of her time, but Talia also loves watching football, spending time with her family, decorating for the holidays, and enjoying seasonally flavored treats (pumpkin spice and peppermint everything!)
In her free time you can catch her cycling, hiking or doing yoga, eating vegan pizza, cuddling her cat (any nearby animal really), spending time outdoors, and traveling to find new adventures 😁
She wanted to train at a program that would make her a great physician and also a strong advocate for her patients, and found Sinai to be the perfect match.
We’ll be at
#AAFP
tonight! Stop by to learn about urban family medicine! Including but not limited to full spectrum repro health, LGBTQ medicine and gender affirming care, inpatient medicine, and so much more, all in the heart of NYC 🏙
Today’s resident feature is Lexi! In her own words: Hey, didn’t see you there. My names Lexi and I’m from Baltimore, MD. My interests including eating Maryland crabs and ice cream (usually separately). I love to play soccer and be outside by the water...
Next up: PGY-1 Talia! A born and raised New Yorker, she just can’t get enough of the Big Apple. Talia is “Passionate about women’s health, integrative medicine, food as medicine and food, in general.”
She’s interested in integrative and functional medicine and reproductive health, and shaping public health policy to create a better healthcare system.